Now is the perfect time to advance your career by joining East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, we offer a variety of rewarding roles across our five main hospitals and community clinics, serving a population of approximately 800,000 in the South East of England. With locations in Ashford, Margate, Canterbury, Dover, and Folkestone, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to delivering exceptional care to diverse communities.
Our pharmacy department is located across our 3 main hospital sites. All Clinical Rotational Pharmacists posts at EKHUFT sit within the Clinical Pharmacy Service. We have 100+ Clinical Pharmacy Staff that work within a growing department of over 200.
We have a risk assessed clinical service, meaning that we provide a clinical service to the areas with the highest medicines risk. This is currently providing a clinical service 5 days a week to most areas. In addition, we provide a 7-day service on the Acute Medicine Units at QEQM and WHH, Acute Frailty Units (AFU) at QEQM and WHH, Critical Care Unit at WHH and 6-day service to our Cancer patients.
The Pharmacy Technician Team is an expanding, dynamic and skilled workforce, with a unified and developing team of Pharmacy Technicians and Assistant Technical Officers across multiple sites. We have Pharmacy Technicians working across both our operational and clinical service which includes, the dispensaries, a variety of different clinical areas, the education team, procurement, distribution, clinical trials, aseptic, radio pharmacy and homecare.
We actively support and encourage Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians from all sectors to join our team and have experience with supporting this changing role.
Research and innovation are at the heart of our mission to improve community health. Our Trust participates in numerous clinical research studies, with Kent and Medway’s Clinical Trials Unit at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate. As a teaching Trust, we are proud to collaborate with local universities and King’s College London to educate and train the next generation of doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals.
Join East Kent Hospitals, and you’ll find a supportive environment where every individual’s contribution is valued. Together, we strive to provide outstanding care while fostering personal and professional growth in an organisation that takes pride in its people.
We work hard to ensure that our people are supported, recognised and rewarded; through personal development and career progression opportunities, dedicated staff well-being and support programmes, flexible working opportunities to help your work-life balance, as well as staff discounts and benefits.
At East Kent, we will do all we can to help you build a career that is centred around you, your family, your location and your interests.
Join us today and play a key role in delivering a consistent, high-quality service while becoming a valued member of one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. We look forward to welcoming you to the team! To explore our current vacancies, click here: https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/careers/vacancies/
